Thor has answered the Avengers' call to action from day one, but the god of thunder has an even higher responsibility: to his worshippers. The Thunderer responds to entreaties from a dicatorship's denizens in a part of the world bad enough to have Doctor Doom for a neighbor! But not everyone's in favor of divine intervention, and it's Secretary of Defense Iron Man's job to get the god out - leaving Captain America to play referee between two of the world's biggest super-powers! Do the Avengers have a prayer of weathering this storm? Featuring She-Hulk, the Falcon, the Enchantress, the Warriors Three and more! Collecting AVENGERS (1998) #62-64, THOR (1998) #58 AND IRON MAN (1998) #64.

ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT! THE ORIGIN OF X-O MANOWAR'S UNRELENTING ARCH-ENEMY...TOLD FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME!From Aric of Dacia's escape with the X-O Manowar armor to the destruction of his own home world, pain and consequence have haunted the life of the alien general called Commander Trill. Now, on the eve of the most devastating assault yet, find out why with an essential, standalone zero issue detailing the battle-scarred life and origin of the Vine's mightiest military leader...and an all-new prelude to X-O Manowar's most terrifying clash of the year.Be here as Robert Venditti (BOOK OF DEATH) and rising star Francis Portela (IVAR, TIMEWALKER) chronicle the beginning of Trill's shattered destiny with an all-new one-shot introduction to the many worlds – and many foes – of Valiant's most formidable hero!

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Bart Simpson, America's favorite underachiever, lays claim to his own comic book! In the tradition of Little Archie, Peanuts, and Little Lulu, Bart Simpson Comics is for and about kids. In an homage to the comics he enjoyed as a kid, Matt Groening presents stories about Bart and the children of Springfield, with the adults taking a backseat as comic foils! Each issue of this new quarterly series feature several short stories that can be enjoyed by a younger reading audience, but there will be plenty of laughs for all ages. It's good, old-fashioned fun with the same satiric edge that has made The Simpsons the most successful animated program in television history!

Writer Garth Ennis brought his dark sense of humour to World War II as he teamed up with Carlos Ezquerra on Adventures of the Rifle Brigade. The story followed one of the toughest and strangest squadrons of the British army on their adventures behind enemy lines. Led by Captain Darcy, a stiff upper-lipped officer of the realm, the group was a dangerous collection of psychos and oddballs consisting of Second Lieutenant Cecil Milk, a weedy old Etonian; Sergeant Crumb, the largest soldier in the British army; Corporal Geezer, a psycho who had killed 413 before joining the army; Hank the Yank, a cigar - stomping caricature of old World War II heroes; and finally the Piper, a Scottish Bagpiper whose music was so bad it made people's ears bleed. The Rifle Brigade was caught by the Gestapo but escaped and blew up a V2 research facility before making it back to Blighty. Full of over-the-top humor, Adventures of the Rifle Brigade proved to be one of the funnier takes on World War II and Ennis went on to complete a second series.